New episode: Farming’s Overlords. The top four companies globally control more than 60% of the inputs modern farmers need: machines, seeds, chemicals. That concentration, plus their size, gives them unprecedented power.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Just for fun I went to look at the four sites Jason linked to, the ones he thinks may be of no value. Each asked me to share my information with 119 vendors. I'm not going to do that. And spending on adverts is not going to deliver visitors either.
Always good, and this time, super pleased by the link to a chart of which glue to use when, and how.
Top Album Artists last week:
1. Willie Nelson 15
2. The Cranberries 13
3. The Little Willies 13
4. Salif Keita 10
5. Jerusalem Quartet 9
Interesting and educational to read about Reilly’s bash script for writing a now post. I’m still in the metaphorical Dark Ages of having a template that I save in the right place under a new name with updated variables.
XKCD on tariffs is actual genius.
https://xkcd.com/3073/
I feel the same, and am now tempted to rename Miscellaneous to Dunno.
Time again for Eat This Newsletter.
- Some things called pepper
- Welsh oats
- Chickens with olives
- Hot potatoes
- Civil Eats’ Food Policy Tracker
Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-267-more-diversity/
Thanks for the introduction to wikiloc.
Might just be me, but Apple’s launchctl seems badly broken, at least for new services. Followed https://www.navidrome.org/docs/installation/macos/ to the letter, and it just doesn’t work. The exactly same command directly from the terminal works perfectly. Cannot figure it out, but it seems I am not alone.